Redmen Top Gorham, 4-2 at Maine Holiday Tournament

Dec 26, 2014 09:14PM
● By Rick Spencer

Ryan Petti (8) scored his second goal of the season as Tewksbury beat Gorham, 4-2

Tewksbury’s High’s talented first line of Ryan Petti, Colin
Quinn and Ryan Sheehan continued its productive ways Saturday afternoon as
the TMHS hockey team took a 4-2 victory over Gorham High School at the Yankee Ford
Invitational in Portland, Maine.

Petti, a senior center iceman, had a goal and an assist as
Tewksbury outshot Gorham by an eye-opening, 53-14 margin. Quinn, a senior
winger, scored his team-leading eighth goal of the season and Sheehan,
a sophomore, picked up an assist as the Redmen improved their record to 3-1.

“Our first line has stepped up the last couple of games and
they’re starting to put points on the board, so that’s a good sign,” said TMHS head
coach Derek Doherty. “Playing four lines keeps those guys fresh, so when they
come out on the ice they just pepper the other team’s goalie with shots.”

Tewksbury jumped out to a 3-0 first period lead after junior
forward Steve Hamel scored his first goal of the season, unassisted, just five
minutes into the first period. Petti
scored his second goal of the season on a power play midway through the first
period, Ryan Meade assisting, to make it 2-0. Quinn, fresh off a record-setting
six goal performance against North Andover last Saturday, scored his eighth
goal of the season, assisted by Sheehan and Petti, late in the first period as
Tewksbury out shot Gorham 27-4 in the first period.

Gorham stormed back with two goals in the second period to
pull to within one at 3-2 going into the third, but Tewksbury’s David Dempsey
sealed the win with an unassisted goal late in the third to account for the
final 4-2 score. Dempsey’s goal came just after Tewksbury had
successfully killed off a 5-on-3 situation.

“David Dempsey had a great game,” Doherty said. “He works hard for
us. He’s always beating guys to the puck and gaining possession of the puck for
us. He just quietly does his job well.”

Overall, Doherty was pleased with his team’s effort.

“We played pretty well,” Doherty said. “We got a lot of
shots, but a lot of them were perimeter shots, and their goalie was pretty
good. We got our game plan going in the first period, but we became a European
team after that, settling for shots from the perimeter.”

Tewksbury continues its annual Maine trip with a 1:00 p.m. game
against Portland High School on Saturday.